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Show sninmiiimiiiimiiminmiiuiiiMminiUj r watchin. Theyre coining! Theyre coming! This was the cry borne to the people In and about the schoolhouse by that Hans Hansen who would be called Hans Nilsen. Hans had been to the top of the little hill and had a look toward town. Like a crew manning a rigging, or a crowd having its picture taken, the assemblage crystallized into forms determined by the chances of getting a glimpse of the bungalow across the ravine on posts, fences, trees and MOUSE hillocks. A motor car came over the hillock, By HERBERT QUICK ran down the road to the driveway to the schoolrnanse and drew up at the KLBiimimniniiimiimiiinmnimmm; Out of it stepped Mrs. Woodruff door. Ccmpacj) (Cop yrisht by The and the colonel, their daughter, the CHAPTER XXII Continued. county superintendent of schools, and 17 Mr. Jim Irwin. Jennie was dressed in Jim turned over and over In his a very traveling costume, mind these new applications of old. and Jim in a moderately historic, significant words, dear to business suit. The fact that when glebe-lanthey reached the threshold Jim picked every reader of history schoolrnanse and it seemed to him Jennie up in his arms and carried her tlnrt they signified the return of many in, will enable any good detective to old things lost in Merrie England, put one and one together and make a lost in Xew England, lost all over pair which comes pretty near telling world, when the the whole story. the old publicly-pa'clergyman ceased to By this time it was nearly seven, he so far the servant of all the peo- and Calista Simms came across the ple that they refused to he taxed tor charmed bridge as a dispatch-bearehis support. Was not the new kind saying that if Mr. Jim and Miss Jenof rural teacher to be a publicly-pai- d nie didnt mind, dinner would he leader of thought, of culture, of prog- suhved right soon. It was cooked ress, and was he not to have his about right, and the folks was gettin and his liv- right hungry an such a crowd! manse, his glebe-lanAnd all because, Hite the old There were fifteen in the babies' room, ing? m and for a while they thought the clergyman, he was doing a work and which everybody was interested Hamm young one had swalyoungest for which they were willing to be lowed a irarhle. She would tell taxed. Perhaps it was not so high em they would be right over; good-by- . a status as the old; but who was to There was another cheer as the Irwin, i Bobbe-Merrf- lJ well-tailore- d well-tailorp- d d, English-speakin- g d r, d, say that? Certainly not Jim the possessor of the now kind of livand its with its g'ebe-ianing, He would have rated schoolrnanse. the new as at least quite as high as the old. the brow of the promontory, a liuhr concrete bridge took the pretty little gorge ir. the leap of a sing.e arch, and landed the oe at the bottom of the fr nt yard of the school-housThus tiie new instirut'on of life was .n full view of the .use veranda, and yet slim off from it by dry moat of the brook and . its tiny n endow of Across the read was the creamery, with its businesslike unloading platform, and its addition in process- of construction for rile reception of the launmachinery for the Not far fr.un the creamery, and dry. also across the road, stood the blackStill smith and wheelwright shop. farther down the street were the barn, poultry house, pens, hutches and yards of the little farm small, as were all the buildings save the schordhouse itself, which was builded, as it should have been, for the future. And even the schoolhouse. when one thinks of the uses to which It was to be put kitchen, nursery, kindergarten. banquet hall, theater, moving picture hall, classrooms, manual training rooms, laboratory and counting room and what not, was wonderfully small Colonel Woodruff said far too small though It was necessarily so large as to be rather astonishing to the unexpectant passer-by- . The unexpectant passer-bthis May day, however, would have been specially struck by the number of motor cars, buggies and surreys parked In the yard back of the creamery, along the roadside, and by the driveway running to the schoolhouse. People In numbers had arrived by five oclock In the afternoon, and were still coming They strolled about the place, examining the buildings and grounds, and talking with the blacksmith and the three elderly and the two younger emerged from the schoolrnanse and took their way over the bridge to the school side of the moat, but it was shut off like the vibration of a bell dipped in water hv the sudden rush of the shooters into he big assembly room, now filled with tables for the banquet. And here the domestic economy classes, with their mothers, sisters female cousins and aunts, met them, as waiters, imt snatchers hostesses flour managers and cooks, scoring the greatest triumph of history in the Woodruff district. For everything went off like dock work, especially the victuals and such victuals! There was quantity In meats, breads, vegetables and the;, was also savor. There was plenty, and there was style. Ask Mrs. Haakon Peter-- s n. who yearned for culture and hail been afraid her children wouldnt get . it if Yim Irwin taught them She will tell nothing but farming you that the dinner widen so many thought of all the time as supper was yust as well served it had been in the Chamberlain Hotel in Des Moines, where she had stayed when she went with Haakon o the state convention. M hv shouldn't it have been even better served? It was planned, cooked, served and eaten by people of intelligence and brains, in their own house, as a community affair, and in a community where, if any one sh d ask you, you are authorized to s.ute that theres as much wealth to the acre as In any strictly farming spot between the two oceans, and where you are perfectly safe financially In dropping from n balloon in the dark of the moon, and paying a hundred and fifty dollars an acre for any farm you happen to land on. Why shouldnt things have been well done, when every one' worked, not for money, but for the love of the doing, and the love of learning to do in the best way? butter-makeSome of these things came out In Gradually they drew Into the school-hous- e the speeches following the repast like a swarm of bees into a hive and some other things, too. It was elected by the queen. None of them, probably not quite fair tor B. B. however, went across the concrete Ilamm to Incorporate In his wishes for bridge to the schoolrnanse. save Mrs. the welfare and prosperity and go pe-pl- d' velvpt-hottwm- e. tli-'- blue-grass- - y r. sat Jim and Jennie. IV? forth of Jim and Jennie that stale fireplace? had been together for a week now this being their homecoming and h;cj only begun to get really happy. Jim sat looking into the fire, of It When Jennie spoke, lu? to emanate from liia 3 seemed voice and schoolmaster shirt front the cause, and the him. Did you bear, said she. w hat superintendent of schools forgave A remark may be a little broad, and Angie Talcott asked T Mhm, said Jim. still clean, and B. B. made a clean Well, said Jennie, "now that Im married can I go on being county s- PImms, who crossed, consulted with one about the troubles of life, but Mrs. Irwin about the shrubbery and he wanted to see Jennie blush which flowers, and went back to Buddie and as a matter of fact he did; but she Jinnie, who were good children but failed to grow quite so fiery red as riatchally couldnt be trusted with so did Jim. But B. B. was a good felmany other young ones withouten some low. and a Trojan in bis work for a-i- f e t , la uperintendent? There was a long silence. "Would you like to? asked Jim. Kind of, said Jennie; if I kr.ev enough about things to do anythin' worth while; but Im afraid that ay shall ai a ays rising to my full height I over any see to just fail to be able thing. You've done more for the school of the county. said Jim. in the s; iyear than any other county supe; done. ever ntended has And we shall need the morey so was Jenidej jijje so like the dickens. rejoinder. m. laughed Oh. not so badly, except for the first year. Ill he a Her Carried and Jim Picked Jennie Up this little farm paying as much we get some quarter sections when in His Arms. we can mak- - n squared about. Why. into or the devoted speech, mainly living on this school farm, Jenna creased value of that farm he at one I'm not fit to be the head of 'lie memorable time was going to sell be- school. -.: fore Jim's fool notions could be carThere was another silence, di;-ried cut. which Jennie took down her hair, nl Colonel Woodruff made most of the wound it around Jims neck. above points which I have filched It will settle itself one of tlrea He as had begun from him. anyhow said he at last. TlieiM r if former late in life, he said, but he days enough to do for both of us g would leave it to them if he hadnt here. worked at the trade steadily after enBut they wont pay me. she prHe had become a follower listment. otested. of Jim Irwin, because Jim's reform They dont pay the ministw was like dragging the road ir. front of said Jim, and yet. tin miwives. your own farm it was reform right nisters with the right sort of wives ;,n at home, and not at the county seat, the best paid. I guess yoa'i! or Lies Moines, or Washington. He always hill. Jennie. in the had followed Jim Irwin as fie had be walked to the open window aH Jim followed Lincoln, and Grant, and looked out over the still landscape. Blaine, and McKinley because Jim in the little meadow grew die Down Irwin stood for more upward growth their round crowns for the average American citizen tiian dreaming trees,a sea not from quite to d.e the colonel could see any prospect rising as hr fltheir the bungalow, of getting from any other choice. And level of nwunlichb in the he was proud to live in a country yleaves glistening the bridge lay the sii-pretty Across like this, saved and promoted by the ren- Twentieth with its campus : great men he had followed, and in a little chief its facing pnct It neighborhood served and promoted if tury temple and within without not quite saved, by Jim Irwin. And was all good, He went across the hail to nh! nv he was not so sure about it not behim E.erv man and nation mother good night. She clung to - mi ing saved. had their and they had to be saved anew every so often. convulsively, and the colonel belie ed tliar Jim Ir--! five ulinuTe5 which arrunSe1 matur on wins new kind of rural school is for these two silent natures was in Jennie forever. bush new just as necessary to the salvation of I am about to close iefore the mantel when he re'U11 this country. said the en'nnei. and smiling at the inscription thereonmy speech. the small service I have been able to Let Us Cease Thinking So Much I went give to this nation. through of Agricultural Education, and the war, neighbors and am proud of Ourselves to Educational Agriculture it; but Ive done more good in the So Will the Nation Be Made St'org." peaceful service of the last three years than I did In four of fighting Why didn't you put it in Latin?'' and campaigning. Thats the way I she inquired. It would have h ad so feel about what weve done in Con- much more distinction. solidated District Number One. (VoI wanted it to have meaning iciferous and applause.) nstead. said Jim. And besides, nobody Oh. Colonel ! The voice of Angie who was at hand was quite sure how to Talcott rose from away back near the turn the Latin phrase. Are you?' Can Jennie keep on bein kitchen. Jennie leaned forward with rer ecounty superintendent, now shes mar- lbows on her knees, and studied it ried? I believe I could. said she. A great guffaw of laughter reduced any pony. But after all, I like it to had Jennie poor Angie tears; and better as it Is. I like everything. Jim to go over and comfort her. It,t was everything ! all right for her to ask that and they THE END. I nor so to there at dught laugh Angie, Now. youre all right, and lets talk Breadmaking Useless. about the new schoolhouse. and so The South Sea island housewife doe? forth. Jennie brought the smiles not have to make bread. There is back to Angies face, Just in time to tree in those islands called the breadhear Jim tell the people amid louder fruit tree, the fruit of which when cheers that he bad been asked to go baked in an oven looks and tastes very into the rural school extension work much like wheat bread. in two states, and had beeu offered a fine salary in either place, but that Lavish Spender. lie wasn't even considering these ofGrace, you must be engaged to fers. And about that time, the chil- young millionaire. dren began to get sleepy and cross No, but this chappie did come to and naughty, and the women set In the beach with $.T00 saved up. motion agencies which moved the Louisville Courier-Journacrowd homeward. Reclaim Writing Paper. 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